20 September 2007

It may not be a blind woman hitting a hole in one, but it's just as unlikely. On Wednesday two golfers took two swings. Two swings in a row lead to two aces. In the same cup.

Moments after Thomas Brady scored a hole-in-one, Dennis Gerhart stepped to the tee and matched it at Forsgate Country Club in Monroe Township.

Neither Brady nor Gerhart had ever made a hole-in-one before. The odds of a golfer scoring an ace are about 5,000-to-1. But the odds of two players in a foursome doing it are 17 million to 1, according to a Golf Digest article in 2000.

It's an amazing feat no matter what, but especially when the twosome included a novice golfer. Dennis Gerhart only plays golf about 15 times a year, and well, he's not all that good at it.

"It was just utterly incredible," Gerhart said. "I'm just ecstatic when I stick the green and get a shot at par."